‘Antha mana manchike’- Everything is for a good cause.
I started my internship at MOHAN Foundation on June 15, 2022. On the very first day I had a talk with Dr. Hemal about organ donation and blood donation. I had told her that I wanted to donate blood, especially when it is an emergency case. Little did I know…
Internship at MOHAN Foundation – A Great Opportunity for a Law student to Enhance Knowledge
What started as a random Google search regarding internship opportunities in NGOs at Chennai, led me towards a really useful opportunity to be a legal intern at the MOHAN Foundation. Upon learning about the works of MOHAN Foundation, it only made me more intrigued to try out interning at the…
Caring for the caregiver
I was interviewing caregivers of organ failure patients for the first time. In order to assess the health status of caregivers in general and understand their experiences, I prepared a set of questions. Sometimes just talking and learning from their experiences can be so overwhelming that you realize that nothing…
My interaction with a renal transplant recipient
On the 16th of June 2021, was the day I had a great learning experience when I spoke with the kidney recipient. I, a mere social work trainee who has little knowledge of kidney transplantation had always wondered what was running in the minds of the patients. Could it be…
My experiences with vegetable vendors
Subashini, Intern from MMM College of Health Sciences In the first year of my college I became aware of organ donation. When I got an opportunity to intern at MOHAN Foundation, an organization that works to promote deceased organ donation and transplantation in my final year that I really began…
Being a Karamveer on Amitabh Bachchan’s Show – ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’
By Dr.Sunil Shroff, Managing Trustee, MOHAN Foundation. I was invited last week to appear on one of the biggest Indian television game shows ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ or KBC. Sony Entertainment Television and KBC wished to promote organ donation through the NGO called MOHAN Foundation. I, being the founder and managing…
Organ Donation and a Wedding
I had never felt more awkward or out of place. Here I was, more than 13,000 kilometers away from home, surrounded by people at a wedding I hadn’t seen in a couple of years, and speaking about organ donation. I had come to India from the U.S. for the summer…
How I spent the Organ Donation Day
“I must do it for my mother’s sake”, said an old woman, her eyes in tears. I was touched. I certainly did not expect an awareness campaign to be this hard. Let me rewind a tad for you to follow. On World Organ Donation Day, which fell on the 13th…
Aishwarya’s Gift Lights Up Lives
The first thing that I noticed about her was the vibrant blue nail polish on her toes, and then the long braid… Aishwarya was a lively 13-year-old girl, so they all said. And then there were the machines she was connected to as she lay on a bed in the…
James Donaldson – An Officer and a Gentleman…and a Hero
“James was an officer and hopefully a gentleman,” said Carol Donaldson with a slight smile. She was talking about her 26-year-old son, James Donaldson, who died in a motorbike accident in 2010. There is no doubt in my mind that James was a gentleman and a hero for he is…